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Copernicus, Kavaleer Team for Garth and Bev
Copernicus Studios and Kavaleer Productions will co-produce 52 11-minute episodes of the animated series Garth and Bev. Copernicus, based in Halifax, Canada, will create the 2D animation based on an idea by Andrew Kavanagh of Dublin-based Kavaleer. Story is about a brother and sister living in the Bronze Age who [...]
Pat & Stan to Air in Multiple Euro Markets
TV-Loonland has signed deals that will bring the comedy series Pat & Stan to audiences across Europe. Broadcasters who picked up the series of 39 seven-minute episodes plus specials include NRK Norway, YLE Finland, Icelandic Broadcasting Corp., TV3 Catalunya, S4C Wales, Jetix Europe in Benelux, TSR Switzerland and TV5 Monde [...]
Csupo Brings Immigrants to TV
Gabor Csupo is returning to animated TV with a six-episode commitment for an expanded version of his feature film Immigrants (La Dolce Vita). With interest in the feature rising ‘ it sold to Germany’s Savoy Film and Turkey’s Ozen Film at the European Film Market ‘ HungariCom will represent the [...]
Ratner to Direct Youngblood
India-based financier Reliance has secured the rights to adapt Rob Liefeld’s Image Comics superhero series Youngblood to the big screen and has set Brett Ratner to direct. This would be Ratner’s second dip into the superhero pool, having directed X-Men: The Last Stand. Youngblood, a tale of government-sanctioned celebrity superheroes, [...]
Rush, Wenham Sign On to Snyder’s Ga’Hoole Feature
Actors Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor and David Wenhem have signed on to provide voices for Watchmen director’s Zack Snyder’s upcoming animated feature, Guardians of Ga’Hoole. The film is based on a children’s book series by Kathryn Lasky that features a cast of owl warriors. The film is set [...]
Bashir Takes WGA’s Doc Honor
Ari Folman’s screenplay to the animated film Waltz with Bashir won the WGA Award for best documentary screenplay, adding to the film’s awards season honor roll. The film, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, has won a DGA honor for Folman and is nominated in the best foreign language category at [...]
BAFTAs Honor WALL’E and Wallace
The British Academy of Film and Television honored the Disney-Pixar film WALL’E as the best animated feature at its awards ceremony Sunday. The awards were dominated by Slumdog Millionaire, which took home seven awards overall. The BAFTAs gave the award for best short animated film to Wallace & Gromit: A [...]
Oscar Trio Leads Toon Noms for Kids Choice Awards
The nominees for Nickelodeon’s 22nd annual Kids Choice Awards give young voters a chance to decide which of their favorite animated projects and actors will take home a coveted Blimp trophy. Nominated for favorite animated movie are Oscar picks Bolt, Kung Fu Panda and WALL’E, as well as the DreamWorks [...]
CN Launches 2nd Volley of Clone Wars This Fall
Cartoon Network on Monday announced it will pick up a second season of the Lucasfilm Animation series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The series, which debuted on the network in October, will wrap up its first season March 20 and return for the second in the fall of 2009. The [...]
Audiences Select Selick’s Magic
Focus Features’s 3-D, stop-motion feature Coraline earned $16.4 million in its opening weekend’good enough for third place. Leading the weekend was the Warner Bros. / New Line romantic comedy He’s Just Not That Into You, which grossed $27.5 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Taken, which won last weekend’s box [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
